I guarantee you sacrifices have been made in build quality to offer this thing at ~$2kUSD.

Your "guarantee" is baseless, and unfounded in any sense of reality.

Quality sacrificed. Perhaps, but more likely not.

You have been duped, like many of the masses of people, to believe that the cost of production is proportional to the selling price (or MSRP, MAP price, whatever). Nothing can be further from the truth. Often, there is ZERO difference in cost, for the more expensive item. Yup.

I've said this a few times here already... so study up on manufacturing economics, what determines the price in the marketplace, and the cost of production. You will find some interesting things.

Hint: Things are worth what people are willing to spend for them. Things all cost as little as possible to make.

IF, and only IF, it can provide low noise low ISO performance significantly better than 5D2 or 5D3, and hopefully at least approach the low ISO performance of a $500 Nikon cropper like the D5100, will I consider buying this thing.

DxoMark better show it to have great DR and low noise, which I then follow with my own read noise push test to check for pattern noise issues.

Until then the devil-I-know 5D2 remains in my kit.I don't need any of the other flimsy features in it, even the AF is likely plenty adequate for how I want to use it.And if it does that well enough then I'll still only want to pay no more than about $1700 for it.

I purchased a 5d2 about a year ago, knowing the 5d3 was around the corner. I don't regret my decision. It is a fantastic still/portrait/landscape camera, with very good high ISO performance. My only (minor) complaint is the AF, which I know has been improved. For me, it is not worth moving from the 5d2 to a 6d now.

Its so nice to see a sensible question with a sensible set of options to choose from.

I don't understand why Canon shareholders don't sack all the useless executives they employ. All the executives need to do is listen to the well considered comments on here to run the business far better than they are doing at present.

1) First they should price every product at half the price they can currently sell the rubbish they now sell. 2) Then they should put all sorts of costly features in, at no extra price.3) Then just admit everyone should buy another make of camera, perhaps they could just stop selling cameras. They could buy Nikon's or any other make and resell at less than what they paid.

Its so simple any idiot can tell them how to do it better.

DO THEY REALLY THINK THEY KNOW HOW TO RUN THE MOST SUCSESFULL CAMERA COMPANY IN THE WORLD?

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If you debate with a fool onlookers can find it VERY difficult to tell the difference.

I fully expect this to be selling in the $1200 -1400 range in year or may be even less. It may happen similar to the Adorama ebay kinda backdoor deals but no way Canon is going to even succeed in shoveling this abomination out the back door. The competition is a tad too alive and a tad too active for that.